Researchers are investigating whether GLP-1 drugs could be used to treat addiction disorders, following patient reports of reduced cravings.

that their favourite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such as alcohol or ...

Members of UMSL’s Addiction Science Team assemble overdose prevention kits with doses of naloxone and information about treatment for addiction as part of their efforts to combat the opioid crisis in ...

Rather than merely mimicking nicotine in the bloodstream, this experimental therapy yielded success rates that dwarf nicotine ...

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that quiets pain at its source in the brain—without the addictive risks of opioids. Using AI to map how pain is processed, they created a targeted “off ...

It could be fertile ground for addiction, say scientists at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA). Research scientists at RIA, founded in 1970 as a part of the New York State Division of ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

In a recent National Public Radio show on WBUR Radio Boston, Dr. Lance Dodes discussed his new book which attempts to debunk the science related to the effectiveness of 12-step mutual-help programs, ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...